Ok I’ve all but stopped posting on my loft projects because no one has a 5yr construction project…. it’s like a a whole volume of books or something… (one no one should have to read)
BUT… just for the record… i have all my coverup inspections… all my money in place to finish (moved my construction loan & saved 4%)… “most” all my city approvals… the city gave me the alley to the south and the street to the north (me gain’n 8000sf of land) all my condo
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#160; believe it or not some work gets done a min of 6 days a week every week…. usually 7days a week…
ok… friday they show up to blow in the wet blown cellulose insulation in every common wall… this is 100% for sound proofing…
before this step… every scrap of drywall… all 5/8″ evey scrap was glued to the back of the hung board, we hung one side of each wall… 4″x4″ scraps were glued to the back of every outlet box … in glue’n these scraps we made sure we placed most at noise level 7ft & below … we then did the light test… lighting one unit while dark in the next… if we saw light we sealed the hole… every hole…. just doing this you could not hear someone talking between units… i also puddy packed any outlet boxes in the same stud bay … and spray foamed around every pipe & wire…
ok back to the cellulose…. they show up fri morning big box truck w/pallets of bales of cellulose… get set up and start to blow’n & shave’n and suck’n up… by 4pm
they had less than 50 stud bays filled and had used the whole truckload of material (less about 8 bales) these are 2×6 studs just under 12ft tall many of which aren’t the full 5.5″ deep because of us glue’n in the extra drywall scraps…. which i know isn’t alot of volume but it’s something… now what they have done looks/feels very dense but… i watched guys do a whole 1700sf house in 4-5 hours last year…
at this rate i hate to think
A. how long will this take
B. how much material will they use…
c. what are they going to do when they get to the 18ft tall walls upstairs
I’m on a set quoted price… so i don’t care if they bring in truck loads of material… but dang…
it’s a big new truck and the equipment is new… abouyt a 2.5-3″ blow hose and a 5-6″ vac hose to get the drop…
anyone with experience with this? is this the norm? I really thought they could get most of the downstairs done in a day or two…
as always…. thanks in advance for any insight
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I've enjoyed your project.
Who sez 5 years is too long?
Don't tell my wife..........
So, where's the pics?
Joe H
Yeah, I'm with Joe. Took us 9 years to get moved into our new house and (of course) it still isn't done.
My own house....
11 years and counting....
Just took front porch stairs off to redo to my liking and make way for a stamped conc walk....
shoulda seen my wifes face when my son and I started prying stair treads off..... Keep pickin away.
I have no knowledge of value about wet blown in insulation however.
Bing
man my new favorite thing is stamping concrete.... simple is an understatement it's so easy and fast...
the effect/value/ vs time effort is so frick'n huge.... don't know if you are doing it yourself... but if you are.... ask and i'll share what little i know... since their ain't much to it...my little can have you covered.... 5 min learning curve....
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I'd actually love to learn, but I'm at the point where I'm so busy with jobs, I've had to accept that it makes more sense to pay someone who does it for a living than for me to putz my way through it, or more likely, for it to not get done and be on the "to do" list. I am fortunate to have an awesome concrete sub, who tends to give me a great break on jobs at my own house, so I'm comfy with having it done. It's a walkway with a couple big sweeping curves, and the elevation from pad to driveway is about a 5' differrence. He's doing a couple intermediate steps, and 5 or 6 steps where it gets steep at the end. Using a curved coping so the steps overhand an inch and a half, with a round nosing, in addition to the rise being curved, too. Can't wait to see it! Def. over my head, tho.
Thanks for advice offer, (sorry for the hijack, as I still don't know squat about wet blown in insulation.)
Bing
Hey! I want that stamping primer! I love the looks of that stuff. Worried about the timing...that's been my experience with flatwork in general, it's all about timing.
Tell it all brother.
I'll start a new topic on concrete stamping... i have some small 9 x 12 patios to place & stamp soon... so if ur not in a hurry I'll try to document the steps in photos... should be within the next 2 weeks
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I'm lookin' for a nice stamp that mimics a wood floor with texture. Any suggestions?
ebay... there is a stamp manufacturer who regularly sells misc stamps on ebay... a set for "professionals" is usually 5-6 mats or stamps... i have some full sets and have yet to use more than 2 at any one time... you could get by with 1 on small jobs but you really need 2 one to stand one while you stamp/bedin the next... then you just leap frog your mats...walk'n and stamp'n
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Perfect. I'll look for it.
My little house is blown wet cellulose. Every wall. Solid sounding and I will always do this again. Being a small house I wanted it to be sound 'proof'. And it is. did seem to take a while but who cares, if it were easy everyone would be doing it. And not just us! And how crowded would this board be then?have fun...dan
3rd day of blowing the wet cells... they are about 50% done with the first floor... (not counting my unit or theater) Like was posted... I don't really care how long it takes or how much material they use...
a few notes:
this stuff seems to hold a ton of mositure... so i'm not going to rush to get it covered up... I'm running fans all night to help with the moisture removal but at 5.5" deep i do have concerns about the moisture on the back of the hung drywall... most all the framing has been in place over 24 months so it was dry...
when they get upstairs they will be dealing with 18ft walls vs the 12ft downstairs... that should be interesting... plus the upstairs main hall wall (120ft run) is metal studs.... so they have 240ft of 18ft hall wall ... hmmm not sure how well it "sticks" to metal
even with them shave'n & use'n the vac to suck up for reuse all that they do shave... i see a major clean-up....
i didn't tape off the junction boxes... seems faster just to shop vac em out after the drywall does up...
not alot i can be doing in the building while they are blow'n... lots of dust...
the sound deadning so far seems to be huge...
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The moisture seems to move out of the stuff well. Like heat to cold, moisture moves to the driest place. Glad you are noticing the sound deadening qualities. Bet this will continue to impress.have fun...dan
Working on my steps too, house is listed.
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Joe H
Looks like you opted for the Corona, Joe.
Wait. Did we get cross threaded?
No kidding your house is listed. It's listing to the left and the right!
Planetary tilt varies around here.
Takes a couple of Coronas to level it up.
Joe H
I'm gonna print that out in BANNER SIZE.
You just saved my old ####
Sounds like you should have some quiet walls. It used to be an old rockers trick to throw the scrap in the stud bays to lessen the clean up, little did we know we were reducing stc ratings. ; ^ )
It would be interesting to have a sound transmission test done to see what stc rating you've come up with.
Maybe you can join the ranks of Mooney, the Ponytail Wall?
Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
Edited 5/25/2008 12:38 pm by ruffmike
It used to be an old rockers trick to throw the scrap in the stud bays to lessen the clean up,
Grrrrrrrr, I use to hate you guys for that. Fishing wire through a stud bay with dw scape is a PITA, but now knowing you did it to improve the stc rating make it ok.
maybe,
I guess